Thanks, Kevin.
yeah, I agree that there shouldn't be a size limit for the post method. I
just wasn't sure when the string (lower case 's':) gets stored in java
String object and if later the java String gets converted to StringBuffer
object, is there any serialization process going on?
Thanks again!
>From: Kevin Mukhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Papaya Head wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > a while back in this mailing list, some guru pointed out that the
>serialized
> > String has a size limit of 64K.
> >
> > I am wondering if there is any size limit for the return value from
> > getParameter to get the posted data from browser, because the return
>type of
> > this method is String...
>
>Speculation:
>
>Probably not, because the string (notice lower case 's') that is sent by
>the
>browser is not a Java String, it is simply a stream of bytes sent by the
>browser
>to the server. I also base this speculation on the fact that browsers can
>pass
>arbitrarily large files up to a server (web sites like ecircles.com and
>myfamily.com allow one to upload jpg files).
>
>Two things to keep in mind:
>
>-The larger your string, the longer the user has to wait for the request to
>get
>sent to the server.
>-Eventually that string gets stored as a String object by the servlet, and
>now
>you're back to the potential limitations of the String class.
>
>K Mukhar
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